I had one of those manicy evenings last night--I was working on this until 1:00 AM to get it done. This is when having the blog really pays off. I am insane, but I really have so few unfinished projects because of it. It's great for motivation. What is not so great it that I am not a night person, I am an early bird, so "right sides together" was a concept that was too hard for me to wrap my brain around last night. . .let's just say that this wasn't going to be a needle case in my first plan and leave it at that.
This is my first real cross stitch project-and it reminded me so much of knitting. I don't knit much. Some day I will knit alot. I can feel it. I love yarn but I find I am only a good knitter with small hard projects, otherwise I never finish. And the thing about knitting, is that you can't really design as you go, or, I can't anyway, which is how I do everything. Same with cross stitch. Well, I did design this as I went, and you can tell, but I finally got smart and had a piece of graph paper near by at the end so I could x out the design before I just forged ahead. For me, cross stitch is a bit like picking a scab in the best way (gross, sorry.) it was fun and I couldn't stop, even when I should. My eyes hurt and I need better posture.
I had high hopes for this lovely kit, but started it in a total whack job way and I also was too excited to do my own thing to stick with it. I ended up using the rest of the lovely linen on this little needle case.
There is an ulterior motive with all this, which is that I am planning/designing all the main mailorder projects right now, at least 3 of the 4 anyway (a year is so far out!) I am saving the last one as a wild card. . . the first mailorder (late September/early October) will have a hat pattern, this time for the man/boy in our lives (although it would be swell on a lass) an Elmer Fudd style hat with ear flaps, then the 2nd one will have an old timey (albeit a modern interpretation of one) cross stitch sampler chart. . .then Raggedy Ann and Andy pattern, then who knows. . .so, I figured, even in my normal delusional state, I should actually start and finish a cross stitch project before I design a pattern. How smart of me!
